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Brantford, Ontario

Kitchener, Canada Area

•Planned and managed tooling, equipment and machine requirements for cabinet shop & cable assembly departments during the construction and layout of the new Cambridge manufacturing facility.•Designed plant layout and work cell layout for cabinet shop & cable assembly departments in accordance to 5s principles in a job shop manufacturing setup implementing Kanban methodologies.•Internalized wire harness assembly manufacturing that was previously outsourced, reducing their cost up to 40%.•Designed wire harness electrical test systems integrated into their assembly form board, allowing QA checks to be done inline, reducing the number of operations and lead time by 14%.•Designed, prototyped, procured and maintained fixtures, jigs, drill templates, router guides and vacuum forming molds for secondary and tertiary manufacturing operations in cabinetmaking across all production models and kept abreast on ECN’s that affected them.•Participated in NPI design reviews and advised on decisions from a ‘DFM’ and tooling optimization perspective.•Collaborated with process engineering to qualify tooling and processes through capability studies, FMEA reports, control plans and standard operating procedure documentation.•Optimized cabinet sub-assembly layout during CNC routing to reduce scrap generation.

Mississauga, Ontario

•Overhauled packaging inspection station by standardizing inspection procedures and reject classification; resulted in removing emergency inspection protocols and reversing the process bottleneck allowing a throughput of 800 units/day up from 250 units/day.•Developed process simulation models to compare production floor results with optimal production throughput. •Conducted time studies to feed into simulation models to aid in line balancing and work cell reorganization.•Implemented operator training procedures and verified training effectiveness through ANOVA Gauge R&R analysis.

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

•Designed mechanical drivetrains implemented in semi-automated press equipment for the activation of pressure sensitive adhesives in the electronics assembly industry.•Refurbished and retooled press assemblies from reclaimed equipment.•Prepared designs, drawings, quotes and BOM’s for RFQ package requests from clients.

Cambridge, Ontario

•Designed efficient, practical, safe and well thought-out electro-mechanical test systems used to verify functionality of returned cell phone sub-components to kick-start and support a $10M cost-savings initiative.•Developed efficient solutions for test fixtures through mechanical design & key component selection by incorporating ‘Design for Manufacturing’ and ‘Design for Repairability’ principles into the core design.•Developed proprietary electrical test platforms through electrical circuitry design in conjunction with microcontroller programming to achieve a complete and turnkey solution.•Prototyped test systems to verify design theory is achievable and cost effective.•Conducted design reviews to demonstrate developed solutions and design intent.•Managed vendor selection through RFQ’s and managed vendors during tester fabrication.•Generated support documentation in the form of operation manuals, repair processes and calibration procedures.•Conducted final assembly, preformed ‘Root Cause Analysis’ and repaired faulty testers.

Oakville, Ontario

•Developed designs for tools and guides from concept to completion while incorporating the requirements of senior engineers on staff, production line lead hands and line operators.•Designed guarding for plastic extrusion lines to guard operators from pinch points and high-speed cutters.•Collaborated with in-house and external machine shops to submit/receive RFQ’s and conduct vendor selection & management to successfully fabricate and implement prototypes.•Updated plant layout diagrams to adhere to ISO 14001 and OHSA requirements for internal and external audits.

Master Of Business Administration, Operations Management

Bachelor Of Engineering & Management Co-Op, Mechanical Engineering